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The Value of the We Love Reading Program for Executive Functions In Jordanian Children

11 pagesPublished: February 12, 2020

Abstract

Early childhood enrichment opportunities have been shown to shape Executive Functions (EFs), which in turn play a critical role in the development of academic skills, including school readiness and future educational achievement and mobility. We partnered with We Love Reading, a Jordan-based organization designed to promote reading for pleasure among children, in order to examine the impact of the WLR read-aloud method on executive functions in children. Children completed a battery of executive functions tasks and parents filled out behavioral and demographic assessments of their children. Over a six month interval with the WLR program, we found that the number of books in the home and the number of children that considered reading as a hobby had increased. Changes in reading in the home from baseline to post-WLR also predicted larger improvements in executive functions, and particularly for younger children and for families who reported lower family income.

Keyphrases: children, development, executive functions, reading

In: Claudia Urrea (editor). Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, vol 3, pages 61-71.

BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{LINC2019:Value_We_Love_Reading,
  author    = {Rana Dajani and Alya Al Sager and Diego Placido and Dima Amso},
  title     = {The Value of the We Love Reading Program for Executive Functions In Jordanian Children},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference},
  editor    = {Claudia Urrea},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/sjDr},
  doi       = {10.29007/t1p1},
  pages     = {61-71},
  year      = {2020}}
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